Font—A complete assortment of type of one size and face. ([9])
Furniture—A general term applied to pieces of soft metal, steel, or wood, used to fill the large blank spaces in a printing form; made in different sizes based upon a 12-point (pica) unit.
Great Primer—An old size of type nearly equal to 18-point. ([15])
Hair Spaces—Very thin spaces. ([19])
Height-to-paper—The length of a type from top to bottom, including feet and face. This is not measured by points, but by thousandths of an inch. See Type-high. ([7], [13])
High Spaces and Quads—Used in type composition when the page is to be molded for electrotyping. ([20])
High-to-line—When the face of a type is above the regular alignment of the other letters in the line; when below the alignment it is low-to-line. ([17])
Hollow Quads—Large blanks are sometimes cast with hollow parts to make them lighter and to economize metal. See Quotations.
Italic—The style of letters that slope forward, in distinction from upright, or roman, letters. ([10])
Jet—The waste metal at the bottom of a type when it is first cast, being the metal which cools in the aperture of the mold. ([22])